The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, is currently in the process of raising a photographic treasure by cataloguing the work of Zoltán Glass.
The work of the artist, whose main creative periods came in the 1930s and 1950s, will be made accessible in digital format. The Bradford collection numbers around 6,000 images in total; the work is scheduled for completion in April 2010.
Zoltán Glass was one of the great photographers of the 20th century – and automobiles were one his favourite subjects. During the 1920s and 1930s he was also commissioned by Daimler-Benz AG to take many photographs of Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Glass, for example, documented the period of the classic Silver Arrows, the cars that dominated international grand prix racing from 1934 onwards. But he also turned his masterful skills to photographing the brand’s production vehicles for publicity material. He could even turn ostensibly uninspiring subjects, such as Mercedes-Benz vehicle production, into aesthetically pleasing images. After the death of Zoltán Glass in 1981, his photographic legacy was acquired by the National Media Museum, which houses one of Europe’s most important photographic collections.
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